Category: RNSA

Please see the attached pdf file containing short reports from all the Rear Commodores and Branch Captains. The summer newsletter includes an advertisement for the RNSA Cowes party on Monday 04 August at the Max Aitken Museum plus an introduction from …

A popular event, usually on a Club lawn looking down river. This year the river was viewed from the veranda of a private members club with spectacular sunset views 23 members, friends and guests from the RNVR Yacht Club met at Woolverstone on the River…

Winds of top Force 5 gusting 6 on the wall Forecast suggests increase rather than dropping during the evening, and so race is cancelled as considered unsuitable for smaller boats and short-handed crews.

Look forward to seeing you all next week – Ian B…

With Kurketrekker out of the water addressing a rudder bearing problem it once again defaulted to Tinker T to take on SOOD duties. For a while with a 9 knot SE wind at Gililkicker but decreasing by the minute it looked like flat calm was the likely out…

Light winds see less than half the entrants complete the course. This year’s race was held in high pressure weather which saw participants topping up on suncream, swimming off boats during the race and retiring in droves with the wind dying in the early afternoon.

As always in these conditions the race was tactically challenging, and required a high level of concentration from all the crew over a longer than usual day.

Another ideal evening for yacht racing saw ten local boats gathered at Gilkicker point for the start of race 4 of the Late Summer Series. Perhaps anticipating the 8-14 knots of SE breeze dying off as the evening wore on, the SOOD, Jolly Jack Tar set a …

Many apologies from the author and results calculator for the lack of results last week, I was swanning around Brittany delivering a rather comfortable Oceanis 411 from Plymouth to France. Both race 2 and 3 results are at the link below. Race 3 turned …

A view from the girls. The second outing was again well attended, with four of the boats from the first there again, joined by two very welcome arrivals to this year’s series, Snow Goose and Hobnob, both of whom have been regulars in the past.

The weather conditions were perfect – a beautiful sunny evening, flat water with a lovely breeze blowing from north of west.